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Cambridgeshire crowned the UK’s cyber crime capital

IT Governance

Figures from the ONS (Office of National Statistics) show that security incidents in Cambridgeshire increased from 2,789 in 2016 to 4,155 in 2018. In 2017, Cambridge became the fastest-growing city in the UK , with businesses attracted to its proximity to London and the North, as well as its highly educated workforce.

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SILENTFADE a long-running malware campaign targeted Facebook AD platform

Security Affairs

Facebook shared details about a long-running ad-fraud campaign that’s been ongoing since 2016 targeting Facebook users with SilentFade malware. The attackers primarily ran malicious ad campaigns, often in the form of advertising pharmaceutical pills and spam with fake celebrity endorsements.”

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Connecting the Bots – Hancitor fuels Cuba Ransomware Operations

Security Affairs

It is known since at least 2016 for dropping Pony and Vawtrak. As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. The Cuba Ransomware gang has partnered with the crooks behind the Hancitor malware in attacks aimed at corporate networks.

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Digging the recently leaked Chinese Communist Party database

Security Affairs

This database includes the members’ name, sex, ethnicity, hometown, organization, ID number, address, mobile number, landline, and education. The database was extracted from a server on April 16, 2016 by a local dissident, then a second source, dubbed “the Data Cleaner” uploaded it to activists’ private chat rooms.

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Anonymization & Pseudonymization as Tools for Cross-Border Discovery Compliance

ARMA International

See the GDPR, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC [2016] OJ L119/1, 33. 2016); Brightedge Techs., 20, 2016); St. See, inter alia , Laydon v. Mizuho Bank, Ltd. , 3d 409 (S.D.N.Y.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

In December, 2016, the lights went out in Kyiv, Ukraine. So the reality is that there was a team of criminal hackers, and like all intrusions, this attack didn’t just start in December 2016; it began months before it was executed. Vamosi: who is attracted then to this village you said you wanted to educate?